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Abstract
Migration is an important aspect of human history. It is the movement of people from one place to another place. The causes of migrations are varied. India too has seen migration throughout its history – both internal and external. This paper is based on the internal migration process which occurred in Kerala during the first half of the 20th century. Women were also participants in this process of migration and this paper tries to look at women’s participation in the process. The migrants came mainly from Moovattupuzha, Pala, Meenachil, Thodupuzha and reached Nilambur, Chemberi, Mananthavadi, Kozhikode, Iritty and Palakkad in Malabar and acquired lands and settled down under inhospitable conditions. Women had played an important role in the migration process. But the studies on migrations have not yet properly recorded the role of women in this movement. The paper mainly looks how women became engendering subjectivities in the late migration period. Ecclesiastical archival sources also showed how women became engendered. Church and the patriarchal society played an equal role in the process of engendering.